I had started a thread about hunting when you were sick, pretty much the consensus was hunt anyways. Well, I started to feel better last night, so I went out this morning intending to hunt for an hour or so before work......when I got out of my tree I found this....
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I'll let you think about this for awhile, I have to go to work for a couple of hours, I promise I will finish this up later this afternoon....
David
Looks like a quartering away shot and you hit the offside shoulder. Snapped the arrow. Good blood sign.
Now David, there are some on here that will think you were hunting over bait since there are acorns in your photo! : )
Sick every deer season, same time. Hunted hardwoods for years.
Leaf mold allergy.
Flonase and Claritin, haven't been sick for last 8 yrs or so.
looking good so far!
Nice! Not hard figuring out what food you were huntin' over.
:clapper: :clapper:
Persistance pays, sometimes you gotta play through the pain.
Atta Boy Dave!!! Hunt every chance you can...even when your sick. Beats sitting home with the wife or spending a day at work. :thumbsup: :jumper:
I hope Little Mikey C checks out your thread....Lord knows how short his leash is... :dunno:
Awesome...btw it's afternoon already where's the rest of the story! :coffee:
QuoteOriginally posted by IndianaBowman:
Now David, there are some on here that will think you were hunting over bait since there are acorns in your photo! : )
Ya just had to go there now didn't ya :nono:
Yep, it's later... :deadhorse:
I used to like that boy.
I gotta go out to the weekly meeting of the Chagrined Again Hunting Club. Y'all let me know how it turns out, OK?
Killdeer :wavey:
I'm sick also, thought about going yesterday but with all the sneezing and coughing, I don't think I would have seen much. Couldn't get out today either but I am feeling a little better ( I hate when this happens )
Happy for ya Dave! ..... As for Skipp..... :p
... mike ...
I too hunt when I'm sick, but the coughing drives me crazy . . . you never really notice how often you cough when your sick until you hit the woods, lol
Ok, ok......you're right Terry, "baiting" with acorns is a pretty good way to hunt around these parts.
I decided last night that I was going to try to hunt this morning at a stand I call the "Ridge Top Scrape" stand, you'll see why later. I had parked and was getting ready to leave the truck when I realized that I had forgotten to bring my two climbing sticks needed for this stand, I was not a happy man. I looked at the time and figured that I could make it home and back and be in my stand as daylight was breaking, and as Joe said, "You can't kill anything laying on the couch". I went home, got my sticks and made my way to the stand. I was able to get situated about five minutes before shooting light arrived, late, but still ok. The piece of land I was hunting is about a 350 X 450 yard piece of land surrounded by posted property on all sides except the northwest, which is where I park and enter from. There is a gully that runs southeast up a hill to a pretty good oak flat, with a thick stand of hemlocks to the east, to the west is dense brush that I think deer bed in. 200 yards past the property line to the south are a bunch of fields, so I thought the head of the gully would be a good place to intercept deer returning from the fields to their bedding areas. When I first scouted the area I found a very concentrated series of last years rubs and scrapes about 40 yards from the head of the gully, along the edge of the hemlocks.
I had been in my stand about 15 minutes when my son texted me about football practice, I answered him at 6:47, and wished him a happy birthday. Yup, Hunter is 14 today! I put my phone away and decided to grunt and rattle. The rattling session was about a minute long. Five minutes later I heard something coming from the west and saw a deer walking along the ridge on the other side of the gully. He crossed at the head of the gully, now 20 yards away and then turned and started at an angle towards me. He stopped at 15 yards behind a hemlock branch and then began walking from my right to left at 15 yards. He stopped again and I drew aimed and released as he began walking again, I heard the arrow hit but wasn't sure where. In the following picture he was standing at the middle leaf of the three yellow leafs when I drew on him......
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He tore out of there hard away and to the right, and I could see now that I had hit him back too far, but as he ran it was obvious he was having trouble. He ran about 60 yards and then turned left for another 30. I thought I heard him go down at the last place I saw him, but wasn't sure. I was standing, and my leg started shaking, I don't remember it being that cold.... I gave thirty minutes and then began to follow what was initially a trail of churned up leaves. There was no blood in the first 60 yards, when I turned left I saw this and thought, "that sure looks like a deer right there"....
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It was!!!!!
He had gone a total of about 80 yards, and the crashing I heard was him going down, I was happy for such a quick kill. The total time from the shot to him crashing was pretty quick, certainly less than ten seconds. I'm always amazed at at the damage a sharp broadhead will cause.
The bad part about the hunt was the shot. It felt good, I'm not sure if I didn't recognize that he was starting to move when I shot, but I hit him through the front of the hind quarters. I feel lucky to have recovered this deer so quickly.
I made a concious decision this year not to use scentlok when I hunted, instead hunting stands only when the wind was right. I've already seen more deer this year than in three full months of hunting last year......hmmmm.
Here's a couple more pics, I have always liked pictures of just the animal and the bow......
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Now I'll throw my ugly mug in and you'll know why...
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For those that care, he weighed 144 pounds with 7 points, three that had the tips broken off.....
Got a couple more spots to hunt now, see if I can't do this again......
David
Well-done, ang get well!
Good job-congrats! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Great Job David!!
Great Job David! BTW you didn't call in sick did you?
nice one... Way to persevere..
Great shot! Thanks for the pictures!
Congrats! :thumbsup:
Way To Go Dave! A deer with "drag handles" is always nice. :thumbsup:
... mike ...
Great story Dave congrats nice deer!
Awesome David! Congrats my friend!
nice buck David congrats . Drew
Great story, congratulations Dave! Thanks for sharing.
Man David, I am absolutely thrilled for you! I know how hard you hunt and you certainly deserve this one.
That is a great deer and will be some fantastic eating!
Congratulations my friend!
Dave,
way to go :bigsmyl:
Good job Dave! You should hunt sick more often. and your right that is an ugly mug :rolleyes: ;)
Nice Deer. And Congrats!
BTW, thanks to all that said, "sick or not, I'm hunting", you pushed me in the right direction....
I didn't have to call in sick Lee, I'm in a pretty fortunate position at work that way.... ;)
Thanks Terry, the day we met for breakfast is the day I scouted this piece for the first time....
Here is why I call it the Ridge Top Scrape Stand....
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These were within 40 yards of my stand, along with three other fresh ones, and each was within a 20 yard circle, all had been worked last night........that makes nine scrapes and eleven rubs in a 30 yard cirlce when you include last years sign......
David
I cant get pics at work, but I like that story Great job! Those aches and pains go away quick when the fever starts Buck fever that is. :thumbsup:
Congrats on a nice buck. Looks like an awesome spot.I will bet money we will see your ugly mug again with a bigger buck. Good Luck.
Dave, Congratulations bud!! What was your set-up?
Now THAT's COOL!!!!!!!!!! :thumbsup: CONGRATULATIONS David!!!!!!!!!! :notworthy:
Nice David ! I hunt whenever I can rain,shine,wind, sick etc.........
Congratulations David!!! Thanks for the story and pics!!
Nice, Dave. I assume it was a NH deer and not a Mainiac. I suspect you were somewhere in the vicinity of Salmon Falls Road??????
Way to go Dave. Looks like you can pronounce yourself healed! :clapper:
Atta' boy, David! Good story, nice pics, congrats on the buck...and on Hunter's birthday!
And with wood arrows no less! Gotta' love it. :thumbsup:
Wahhhhhh Whooooooo!!
Way to go, nice pics and good story, thanks.
Nice job my friend!! I recieved your text at around 9:30 this morning along with a pic. You know anytime is a good time to hunt ecsp. when you should be working!! Congrats bud! Shawn
Congrats.
Hunting is good medicine if your sick!!!
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AWESOME job man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks guys....
Ed, I was shooting my Morrison Shawnee recurve, 47@29.5 with Gold Tip 35/55's, and.....some pretty good 175 grain VPA Terminator Broadheads, thanks my friend..
Bill, NH deer, but not Salmon Falls Road, was in Rollinsford.
Tony, you are right on, it's pretty neat to shoot one on your kid's birthday, especially 9 minutes after texting him!
This was the first deer I have ever rattled in, I have to say it was pretty neat. There was no doubt about where he thought that fight was.
David
Congrats David!
Nice!!!
Great job tell this story. Love the pictures.
Chris
Great story David and I'm glad it turned out well.
Congrats :thumbsup:
Wow, what a great morning. Good job! :bigsmyl:
For kind of a bad start to your day you sure turned it around. Congrats!!!
What a great looking spot brutha! Congrats again :notworthy: :clapper:
Hopefully this weekend I can return the favor and send you a text pic with my buck :pray:
You made my morning with yours!!
Sure glad you didn't take my advice and stayed on the couch! :rolleyes: Great buck!
awesome!!!
Nice job David!
:thumbsup:
Congrats. Bet you felt better soon as you saw the deer. Amazing what a day in the woods will do for a sick bowhunter. Thanks for sharing.
Good job Dave! Way to hang in there. :thumbsup: Do you have the X6C up there pointed at all those scrapes?
Looking forward to texts with pics Curt.... :pray:
Greg I don't have it there, I do have it at another spot I hope to hit this weekend that has the same type of buck sign..... :eek:
I just started vacation an hour ago, I'll be hitting it hard in the next week, going to do my best to put another one on the ground.....
David
Bravo and good luck!
The cold virus is a nasty one -- had me coughing intermittently in the woods today eight days after it first grabbed me by the throat. And with yesterday's cold rain followed by a crystal clear, almost full moon all night, I knew it was a fool's errand to think they'd be up and moving this morning. But I enjoyed myself anyway, especially when I remembered that we have almost two months left!
:thumbsup: Congrats! Nice deer!
Good job sniffle, sniffle...
I guess that what i should be doing right now
i missed this the first time around...way to go David!
Nice!!! :thumbsup:
:thumbsup: Congrats!!! Good shooting!